Bhoomananda Foundation

Bhoomananda Foundation

By Narayanashrama Tapovanam, An abode of BrahmavidyaReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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Bhoomananda Foundation episodes

  • Elevate Your Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji, draws our attention to one fundamental fact that entire life lies around oneself. Our ‘I’ expresses itself in the form of sensory activity, oral activity, mental, intellectual activity. But all these activities are designed and implemented by the inner personality. They are initiated by the mind, then implemented by the mind by employing the senses and it also concludes in our mind.

    The mind is the greatest treasure possessed by a human. One must cherish it and bring about improvement, refinement, expansion and liberality to the mind. Our human life is only meant to treat the mind and elevate it. One’s own mind and intelligence must be a very dependable friend and associate in life. For every problem sensed by the mind, the intelligence offers a solution.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत् ।
    Bhagavad Gita 6.5
    PR 22 Aug 2017

    14 min
  • How to Understand the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji speaks about Sapta Bhumikas-the seven spiritual states of a seeker. It is not a physical growth, but a psycho-Intellectual growth of the seeker.

    Both the mind and intelligence are expressions of the Consciousness. The consciousness employs the senses and employing the senses, it perceives. The actual perception is in the mind, registration is in the mind, imprints are in the mind, the mind uses the senses to have its own imprint and these imprints are stored. So, though it is a sensory experience, and we call it direct, the experience itself is in the level of consciousness.
    After the mental imprints are made, mental role stops, and the intellectual role starts. The intelligence uses the mental data to think, to reason. As are the senses and sensory objects for the mind, so are the mental data, mental objects for the intelligence. But what functions as the intelligence is again consciousness. So, both the mental data and the intellectual finding data, are direct experiences.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    बुद्धिग्राह्यमतीन्द्रियम् ।
    Bhagavad Gita 6.21
    यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं ततः ।
    यस्मिन्स्थितो न दुःखेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते ।।
    Bhagavad Gita 6.22
    PR 19 May 2016

    21 min
  • Potential of the Mind - Prabhatha Rashmih | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    Swamiji continues discussing the potential of the mind and asks us to keep introspecting on the mind such that knowledge becomes the functional note in our personality. Manana is the key.

    The whole world is matter and energy and it is insentient. It is animated and activated by the Consciousness. Whether you call it the mind or the intelligence or the ego, substance-wise, it is the same cētana or consciousness.
    cētana or consciousness is not just the mind that is enclosed within the body. Mind is only a functional name. One aspect of the cētana’s function is called the mind. But as a substance the mind refers to the cētana itself. Such a mind gets affected by interactional impacts only when we cannot extend the knowledge that that the mind is infinite and potent to these impacts. We think the impacts are more powerful than the mind. They are actually ripples and waves and the mind is the ocean.
    A seeker must keep bringing the mind to the awareness and infusion of its potential whenever faced with agitations in interactions. Agitations are on the surface, and one must not get shaken by them. In reality, we are unaffected like the space, unshakeable like the mountains, and boundless like the ocean.
    Shlokas chanted in the Track:
    व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिरेकेह कुरुनन्दन ।
    बहुशाखा ह्यनन्ताश्च बुद्धयोऽव्यवसायिनाम् ॥
    Bhagavad Gita 2.41

    14 min
  • Just Presence | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    In this beautiful talk, Nutan Swamiji speaks about his Gurudev Baba Gangadhara Paramahamsa, on the occassion of Baba's 127th Jayanti. Swamiji explains what mattered most for him was just the presence of the Mahatma, more than any words spoken. Everything that Swamiji needed was there in Baba's existence.

    15 min
  • How to make the knowledge our own? | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    Nutan Swamiji enlightens us that though we see this world as external to us, in our experience the world we see is what appears in the mind. So, subjectively, the world we perceive is made of Consciousness.

    When thoughts arise, we get disturbed, as we follow the thoughts. Though it is the Consciousness, which is taking the forms that we are experiencing, we get troubled by the differential notion. Swamiji says, it is our clinging to what we like and dislike, that creates hindrance in making the Knowledge our own.

    8 min
  • Doing all activities as Yajna | Words of Wisdom | Swamini Ma Gurupriya

    What is Yajna? Ma explains that every act that we do without delusional clinging to the results, becomes a Yajna. We should consider every work as given by God and do it in an excellent manner. There should not be any thought of personal gain, rather we should think of others and do benevolent acts.

    Ma also tells us that it is easier to renounce external objects but our thoughts, feeling and ideas are very difficult to renounce. As we do our actions with the attitude of Yajna, it results in spiritual gain, our mind imbibes good qualities and becomes calm and quiet thereby leading us towards the final goal of Self-realization.

    7 min
  • Discerning the Real Atma | Words of Wisdom | Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha

    In the ancient times, the rishis used the 'arani' wood to generate fire for their rituals, by rubbing the two pieces of wood together. Nutan Swamiji explains that the fire is already hidden in the wood, only a proper effort is needed to manifest it. Similarly, the Self is what we are, but we are unable to manifest or feel It, because our body and mind are so much given to worldly and sensory delight.

    A Guru helps us in experiencing the Self within us. The sadhana or churning has to be done using the Knowledge, which is the greatest purifier. Using the Knowledge as the tool, we have to relieve our mind and buddhi, which is currently sold to raga dvesha.

    8 min
  • Discovering the fire within | Words of Wisdom | Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

    We think we are the body limited personality, the world stands different from us and everyone here are individual Atma. But is that the truth? Using a mirror example, Poojya Swamiji explains what is original and reflected Consciousness and how the reflected consciousness is the Consciousness associated with and dependent on body. By discovering our Real identity, we transcend mortality and becomes immortal.

    8 min

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A series of talks from Narayanashrama Tapovanam.